Posted on 08/30/2008 9:39:49 PM PDT by pctech
The microsoft XP SP3 pack and the other patch I posted in my first response install the VISTA networking stack into the XP OS. AFter that your son might, or might not need to contact the Uni IT dept and have them install his MAC address into the Vista Server workgroups he’s a member of.
His XP booted machine will show up as a Vista network compliant machine on the Vista Server Admin’s screen once the patch is installed. It might not automatically be allowed group permissions that his user account has permission to though. MS promises to fix that in the next patch.
Buy an Apple, dude.
On my MacBookPro, I run a bootloader called "rEFIt" that works beautifully. It isn't a Mac piece of software, it loads before any OS gets running. Through this, I can choose to boot into OS X 10.5, Vista (blech), or Ubuntu 8.04 partitions on my drive.
It seems much easier to use than GRUB (which I run at work) or LILO (outdated, I think). But it requires an EFI motherboard, which is what Apple, and ... anyone else ????
Probably the same reason they released a patch that blocked internet connectivity for those of us using a reliable third party firewall.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx
My son hasn't tried it yet but I want his roommates to look into this before I try and do anything with his computer. If this works then hopefully I won't have to make any more changes other than the one I already did, which was to install the LLTD protocol.
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